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Can omega-3 fatty acids really treat depression? Fishing for answers

I am a graduate in Biomedical Sciences with Professional Experience from Brunel University London. During my studies, I have grown to...

On shame and stigma in mental health: A medical student's view on how we can bring change

Regina Askary

Feb 12, 20205 min read

On shame and stigma in mental health: A medical student's view on how we can bring change

I am a fourth-year medical student studying at the University of Southampton. Though I don’t know what I want to specialise in yet, I...

Inspire the Mind

Feb 12, 20202 min read

What’s in a logo? Time to celebrate our blog - and to change it!

We are only a few days away from the one year anniversary of our blog platform — our first blog was published on the 1st of March...

Courtney Worrell

Feb 10, 20207 min read

Transforming the future of Clinical Trials - A brand new platform

When we go to our GPs and are prescribed medication for the virus we’ve been suffering with, the stomach pains that have been stopping us...

Rachel Kelly

Jan 29, 20203 min read

Ditch the diets this January, says Rachel Kelly

A New year, and a time when publishers traditionally promote January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of merrymaking....

One Duchess, #5BigQuestions, 730 thousand births and 3.9 million children:

Carmine Pariante

Jan 22, 20205 min read

One Duchess, #5BigQuestions, 730 thousand births and 3.9 million children:

How to build the healthiest generation in history. The first time that I met HRH the Duchess of Cambridge, it had just been announced...

Health and Happiness the Salon London Way

Helen Bagnall

Jan 15, 20206 min read

Health and Happiness the Salon London Way

In 2008, Juliet Russell, Diccon Towns and I set up Salon London to get Londoners together with academics, experts, authors and their...

Giulia Lombardo

Jan 8, 20205 min read

Mindfulness: How to become a Jedi?

“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind… All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never...

Rachel Upthegrove

Dec 18, 20195 min read

Can immune dysfunction cause psychosis?

Bringing the brain and the mind back together again In the 1600’s French philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the mind and the body...

MENTAL HEALTH AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: IN CONVERSATION WITH LÅPSLEY

Ellen Lambert

Dec 12, 201911 min read

MENTAL HEALTH AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: IN CONVERSATION WITH LÅPSLEY

I literally talk about my inner monologue and then sell it” Many know her as Låpsley, but to me she is Holly Lapsley Fletcher: singer,...

Building stronger future generations: Can we prevent the onset of depression in adolescence?

Valentina Zonca

Nov 27, 20197 min read

Building stronger future generations: Can we prevent the onset of depression in adolescence?

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you” The Girl Who Chased the Moon, Sarah Addison...

Mark Freestone

Nov 20, 20196 min read

IN THE MIND OF A PSYCHOPATH? NO THANKS.

I’ve been working in forensic mental health, that is the system that manages men and women who commit a crime that is deemed to be a...

ON NICK DRAKE, TRACEY EMIN, AND WHY ART IS SO GOOD FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH…

Ellen Lambert

Nov 13, 20197 min read

Arts & Culture

ON NICK DRAKE, TRACEY EMIN, AND WHY ART IS SO GOOD FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH…

I have wanted to work in Clinical Psychology for as long as I can remember. Being able to connect with people and offer emotional support...

Jessica Trinetti

Nov 6, 20197 min read

DOES SOCIAL NETWORK ADDICTION EXIST?

Almost twenty years have passed since the birth of the digital world (Berners Lee 1999). The creation and subsequent rise of the Internet...

More Fish, Better Attention? It Really Depends.

Jane Chang

Nov 6, 20193 min read

More Fish, Better Attention? It Really Depends.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is quite common. It affects about one in 20 children and is three or four times more...

Kamaldeep Bhui CBE

Oct 22, 20194 min read

The Secret Art of Psychiatry

Mental health is now mentioned on a daily basis — in the press and media, within industry and employers, health and social care,...

LET’S KICK OFF YHE WORLD’S LARGEST STUDY INTO ARTS AND HEALTH!

Inspire the Mind

Oct 19, 20196 min read

Arts & Culture

LET’S KICK OFF YHE WORLD’S LARGEST STUDY INTO ARTS AND HEALTH!

Singing and dancing is not something you routinely associate with our Parliamentarians — unless you think this expression applies to the...

Dinesh Bhugra CBE

Oct 15, 20196 min read

BREXIT AND THE AGE OF RAGE

A psychiatrist’s view on how leaders should act as therapists to bring people together. This can truly be called an age of rage; everyone...

Is Kung Fu good for your health? Yes — and also for your body and mind

Carmine Pariante

Oct 8, 20195 min read

Is Kung Fu good for your health? Yes — and also for your body and mind

It’s the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, one of the best Kung Fu movies ever. The Matrix. And, in a totally unrelated coincidence,...

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures” — A photographer’s creative journey into expressing…

Francesco Catania

Oct 1, 20194 min read

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures” — A photographer’s creative journey into expressing…

Walking on an empty street of London: the illuminated windows, the colours and the shadows are always different. Behind every window...

Jane Chang

Sep 24, 20195 min read

When Hip-hop Meets Psychiatry

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “hip-hop”? DJ, break-dancing, rapper with gold chains and baggy pants, and graffiti...

Are violent games really making children more violent?

Kristi Priestley

Sep 17, 20195 min read

Are violent games really making children more violent?

The debate over the psychological impact of violent gaming has been going on for years. If you ask worried parents, they might complain...

Nobody puts a woman in a corner, not even in academia: a conversation with Professor Paola Dazzan

Etta Nettis

Sep 10, 20198 min read